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18th Century French Aubusson Verdure Tapestry
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An 18th century French Aubusson handwoven wool verdure tapestry. Beautifully detailed scenic landscape in shades of brown, blue and green. Wooded foliage surround a pair of swans and...
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Pair of Large 19th Century Aubusson Verdure Tapestries with Heron and Duck
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This pair of rare 19th century large verdure tapestries, woven in the celebrated Aubusson workshops, illustrates the enduring appeal of nature-inspired decoration in French interiors...
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French 18th Century Aubusson Verdure Tapestry, Antique French Landscape Tapestry
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Located in Miami, FL
A fine quality Late 18th Century or Early 19th Century French verdure tapestry.
This timeless French antique tapestry is woven with lyrical precision in the revered ateliers of Aubu...
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19th Century French Aubusson Tapestry
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Located in New York, NY
Handwoven in Aubusson, France in the 19th Century, this lovely Tapestry features a pair of lovers in a classic Rococo vinyet and has its original fruit and floral border. It measures...
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Monumental 18th Century Aubusson Verdure Tapestry
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Located in Miami, FL
Monumental 18th Century Aubusson Verdure Tapestry
From the historical residence Chateau de Nernier, situated on the French side of Lake Geneva:
A magnificent French verdure tapestry, woven in wool and silk at the renowned Aubusson workshops in the early 18th century. This richly detailed piece features a lush woodland landscape with delicate architectural elements and meandering waterways inhabited by elegant wading birds. The composition is framed by an intricately woven floral border that enhances the tapestry’s pastoral...
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French Aubusson Rug 19th century – 138x182 – No. 1584
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Located in Paris, FR
Rug From The Aubusson Manufactory,
Napoleon III
Period: 19th century
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool
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19th Century French Aubusson Verdure Tapestry
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in New York, NY
Place this long and narrow antique tapestry in a staircase or in between two windows for a pop of color. Handwoven in Aubusson, France in the 19th Century, this lovely verdure wall p...
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Jean Lurçat, Balance - Aubusson Tapestry Atelier P. Legourieux - 88x116 -N 1573
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Located in Paris, FR
Jean Lurçat, Balance - Aubusson Tapestry Atelier P. Legourieux - 88x116 - No. 1573
Artist: Jean Lurçat
Period: 20th century
Style: Design 50's and 60's
Condition: Perfect condition
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French Aubusson Tapestry 19th - Champetre Scene - L 1m90 X H 1m55 - N° 1417
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Located in Paris, FR
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Circa 1960 Jean Lurçat Rooster And Sun French Aubusson Tapestry 20th Century
By Aubusson Manufacture, Jean Lurçat
Located in Paris, FR
Artist: Jean Lurçat
Period: 20th century
Style: 50's and 60's design
Condition: Perfect condition - Hand woven
Material: Wool
Width: 365cm
Height: 185cm
In keeping with tradition, t...
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French Aubusson Tapestry "Mille Fleurs" Circa 1960 - 201lx145h Cm - No. 1481
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Located in Paris, FR
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1960s French French Provincial Vintage Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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Leaves and Rain, Jean Lurçat - French Aubusson Tapestry Circa 1961 - N° 1495
By Aubusson Manufacture, Jean Lurçat
Located in Paris, FR
Artist: Jean Lurçat
Era: 20th century
Style: Design 50s-60s
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool
Width: 94 cm
Height: 130 cm
Depth: 0.5
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Tapestry Manufacture Aubusson "the Lady with the Organ" 19th Medieval - N° 1427
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French Aubusson Tapestry - Odette Caly "Soleil d'Or" - Atelier Hamot - No. 1404
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Very large 1700's Aubusson Verdure Tapestry
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Located in LYON, FR
Very large Aubusson Tapersty Circa 1720's.
‘Verdure’ (foliage) tapestries were woven throughout the 17th and 18th Centuries, featuring wooded landscapes, reflecting the interest in b...
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Louis XVI Living Room set In Lacquered Wood And Aubusson Tapestry
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in BARSAC, FR
Magnificent Louis XVI period living room in white lacquered carved wood, gendarme hat back, grooved belts and fluted feet.
Composed of a large eight-legged sofa and two armchairs.
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Huge early 1700's Verdure Aubusson Tapestry
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Located in LYON, FR
French Aubusson woven tapestry from the early 1700's depicting a lizard standing in luscious vegetation. Created in Aubusson, located in central France. Interestingly this vertical w...
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18th Century French Aubusson Tapestry "Verdure"
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A luxurious 18th-century Aubusson tapestry, depicting a dog barking at fowl on a river, in a typically rural and architectural-themed landscape. Hand-woven in wool, in predominantly ...
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Pair of 18th Century French Framed Aubusson Tapestries
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A beautiful pair of 18th Century framed Aubusson tapestries from France. Capturing a beautiful mountain landscape. With delicately depicted verdure trees, plants, and birds to the fo...
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Spring Levee, Jean-Michel Lartigaud - French modern Aubusson Tapestry - No. 1513
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
This magnificent modern tapestry from the Aubusson Manufacture, having benefited from a deep cleaning and a careful verification and doubled by experts in our artisanal Workshop. It ...
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20th Century French Modern Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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French Tapestry Signed By The Aubusson Factory, Circa 1860 - 278lx200h - No 1474
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
French Tapestry Signed By The Aubusson Factory, Circa 1860 - 278lx200h - No. 1474
This tapestry is a fine example of the 19th century Aubusson verdure. This type of tapestry is char...
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Mille-Fleurs Tapestry signed by Aubusson Manufacture – 19th Century – No. 1562
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Mille-Fleurs Tapestry signed Manufacture Aubusson - 19th century - 152Lx125H - No. 1562
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Era: 19th century
Style: High period - Renaissance - Louis XIII
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19th Century French Aubusson Tapestry Depicting a Noble Hunt Scene with Hounds
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Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a wall, grand staircase, or library with this elegant and colorful antique "chasse à courre" tapestry. Handwoven in Aubusson, France circa 1880, this rectangular wall hangin...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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Very Fine 19th Century Aubusson french Tapestry - The Lady with Unicorn N° 1364
By Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, Aubusson Manufacture, Pierre Legoueix
Located in Paris, FR
Rare and Very Fine 19th Century Aubusson Tapestry - Signed - The Lady with the Unicorn - 1m74Hx1m95L - N° 1364
My personal opinion on this tapestry:
Normally I do not share my perso...
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Mid-19th Century French Aubusson Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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Greenery tapestry Flanders Oudenaarde - 18th century Dim 2.42x2.52 - No. 1346
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Located in Paris, FR
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Greenery Tapestry from the Aubusson Factory, 210lx170h - No. 1478
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Period: 19th century
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool & Silk
Width: 210 cm
Height: 170 cm
Depth: 0.5 cm
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1880s French Aubusson Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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Medieval Petit Point Tapestry Around 1980 - 1m37hx1m00l - N° 1146
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Located in Paris, FR
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1980s French Aubusson Vintage Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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Pair of Antique Late 17th C. French Aubusson Tapestry Portière Border Panels
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in New York, NY
Called portière, these antique wall hanging tapestries were handwoven in Aubusson, France in the late 17th Century (c 1680s). They both feature floral and foliage decor in a beige pa...
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1680s French Aubusson Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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Choir Carpet from the Aubusson Manufacture – 19th Century – No. 1578
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Period: 19th century
Condition: Excellent
Material: Wool & Silk
Dimensions: 470 x 113 cm
This magnificent carpet, having undergone a deep cleaning and a meticulous inspection by our...
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19th Century French Aubusson Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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Antique 19th Century French Aubusson Rococo Tapestry
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in New York, NY
This is a lovely antique 19th century square French Aubusson tapestry depicting a on a beautiful spring day in the countryside with lush trees and vegetation with a woman on a swing and her husband and two children beside her.
It is a lovely silk and wool tapestry with in the classic Rocco style...
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19th Century French Rococo Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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Tapestry Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, Louis XVI period 1738 at the Gobelins
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Madrid, ES
Tapestry from the Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, Louis XVI period , made in 1738 at the Gobelins
One panel from a series of Gobelins tapestries depicting the History of Esther, illustrating Esther seated and attended by handmaidens, one washing her feet in golden basin, another fastening a bracelet, another offering a mirror, all observed by Mordecai, woven in the workshop of Michele Audran after a design by J. F. de Troy.
The Toilet of Esther c.1778-85.Royal Collection Trust-Queens Audience Chamber
Windsor Castle
The Sketches for the Esther Cycle by Jean-François de Troy (1736)
“and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mor’decai, ..., took for his own daughter.” (Est. 2:7)
A supple and undulating genius, both a flattering portraitist and a prolix history painter, as well as a brilliant genre painter, in a gallant or worldly vein, Jean-François de Troy (Paris, 1679 – Rome, 1752), solicited, although he had passed the threshold of old age, a new royal commission up to his ambitions. To obtain it, he submitted – successfully - for the approval of the Bâtiments du roi (administration), seven modelli painted in 1736 with his usual alacrity.
Inspired by one of the most novelistic texts of the Old Testament, the Book of Esther, these sketches in a rapid and virtuoso manner were transformed by the artist, between 1737 and 1740 into large cartoons intended to serve as models for the weavers of the Gobelins factory. Showing undeniable ease and skill in the composition in perfect harmony with the sensitivities of the times, the tapestry set met with great success.
The Story of Esther perfectly corresponded to the plan of the Bâtiments du roi to renew the repertoire of tapestry models used for the weavers of the royal factories while it also conformed to the tastes of Louis XV’s subjects for a fantastical Orient, the set for a dramatic tale in which splendour, love and death were combined. Indeed, no tapestry set was woven in France during the 18th century as often as that of Esther.
The series of modelli painted by de Troy during the year 1736 looks to the history of French painting and decoration under Louis XV as much as it does the history of the Gobelins. It probably counts among the most important rococo pictorial groups to have remained in private hands. First the Biblical source illustrated by De Troy which constitutes the base of one of the richest iconographical traditions of Western art will be considered. Then the circumstances and specific character of French civilisation during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV which contributed to making the theme of Esther a relevant subject, both attractive to contemporaries and remarkably in line with the sensitivities of the time will be elucidated.
An examination of the exceptional series of sketches united here, the cartoons and the tapestries that they anticipate as well as a study of their reception will close this essay. The Book of Esther: A scriptural source at the source of rich iconography.
The origin of the Esther tapestry set by Jean-François de Troy – origin and creation of a masterpiece
According to the evidence of one of the artist’s early biographers, the chevalier de Valory, author of a posthumous elegy of the master, read at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on 6 February 1762, it was apparently due to early16 rivalry with François Lemoyne (1688-1737), his younger colleague who had precisely just been appointed First Painter to the King in 1736, that had encouraged François de Troy to seek a commission allowing him to show off his ease and his promptitude at the expense of a rival who was notoriously laborious: “M. De Troy, retaining some resentment of the kind of disadvantage which he believed to have suffered compared with his emulator looked to regain some territory by making use of the facility his rival did not possess.
Lemoyne was excessively long in the creation of his works,and M. De Troy of a rare celerity: consequently, with this particular talent, the latter offered to the court to make paintings appropriate to be executed at the Gobelins Factory; and it is to this circumstance that we owe the beautiful series of the Story of Esther, which would be sufficient alone to give him a great reputation.”17 Beyond the suspicion inspired by the topos, which still constitutes, more or less, a tale of rivalries between artists in ancient literature, there is probably some truth in what Valory reports although A.-J. Dezalier d’Argenville (who indicates rather spitefully that de Troy did not hesitate to “cut prices” to impose himself, benefitting from the productivity assured by the unlikely rapidity of his brush)18 proves to be more evasive: “As he looked to busy himself, he had offered to make the paintings that serve as models for the King’s tapestries cheaply: which did not please his colleagues.
He was given a choice of two tapestry series to be made and he took the Story of Esther and that of Jason”.19 Whether or not the choice was actually left to de Troy (which would appear rather casual on the royal administration’s part all the same), it seems likely that the artist, whose contemporaries extol his “fire”, as the faculty of invention was then called, must have ardently aspired to the possibility of using on a very large scale the “creative genius” with which Dezallier d’Argenville credits him. The decoration of the private apartments, the fashion for which Louis XV had promoted at Versailles and Fontainebleau, offered little opportunity to excel in this area. Other than painting for altarpieces, only tapestries could allow comparison with Lemoyne who had been granted – unfortunately for him – a major decoration: the enormous ceiling of the Hercules Room at Versailles. Favoured by the recent improvement in France’s financial situation, the revival of patronage offered de Troy a commission fitting for him, in a field in which, however, he had hardly any experience.
Anxious to renew the repertoire of models available to the Gobelins factory, the Duc d’Antin, surintendant des Bâtiments du roi from 1708 to 1736 followed by his successor, Philibert Orry comte de Vignory, gave him the task of producing seven large cartoons inspired by the Book of Esther corresponding to the brilliant sketches or modelli which de Troy had produced in one go, or almost (very few preparatory drawings can in fact be linked to the Esther cycle and all seem to be at the execution stage of the cartoons).20 Subjected to the approval of the Administration des Bâtiments according to the procedure in use for projects being planned for the Gobelins, sketches made rapidly during 1736 were approved and the project launched immediately. Thereupon came the news of François Lemoyne’s death, who, ground down by work and a victim of his private torment, committed suicide on 4 June 1737.
Against all expectations, de Troy did not replace his rival in the position of First Painter (which remained vacant until the appointment of Charles Coypel in January 1747), which would perhaps have made him too obviously the beneficiary of the drama. The awarding of the position of Director of the French Academy in Rome came to console him while he had already produced (or he was in the process of finishing), in Paris, three of the seven cartoons of the cycle (The Fainting of Esther finished in 1737 and the Toilet and Coronation of Esther, both finished in 1738).
De Troy, we can see, did not follow the order of the narrative but began with the subjects which apparently offered the least difficulty because he had already depicted them, or because they fall into a strong pictorial tradition (such is the case especially for the Fainting of Esther). He had hardly settled at the Palazzo Mancini in August 1738, when his first task which awaited the new director of the French Academy naturally consisted of honouring the royal commission and finishing without delay the final cartoons of the Story of Esther after the sketches he must have taken with him. As prompt as ever, de Troy discharged himself of the execution of the four remaining cartoons in only two years, by beginning with the largest format which allowed him to strike the imagination and to impose himself as soon as he arrived on the Roman stage: the Triumph of Mor’decai which was finished in 1739 (like Esther’s Banquet).
The following year, the Mor’decai's Disdain and The Sentencing of Haman were brought to an end in the same Neo-Venetian style, obviously tributary to Veronese with its choice of “open” monumental architecture which is characteristic of the entire cycle.21 The series, it should be noted, was almost augmented with some additional scenes in the mid 1740s. Indeed, the first tapestry set finished at the Gobelins in 1744 proved to be unsuitable for the arrangement of the Dauphine’s apartments at Versailles for which it had been intended to decorate the walls the following year (cf infra). Informed of this, de Troy, considering that the story of Esther offered “several good subjects,” immediately offered to illustrate one or new subject among those “which could appear to be the most interesting”.
The directeur des Bâtiments Orry, who managed the State’s accounts, obviously judged it less costly to have one of the tapestries widened to fill in the end of the Dauphine’s bedroom,22 which has probably deprived us of very original compositions, because de Troy had already illustrated the most famous themes, those that benefitted from a strongly established iconographical tradition and from which it was not easy to deviate
The Tapestry Set of the Story of Esther
Placed on the tapestry looms of the Gobelins at the end of the 1730s in Michel Audran’s workshop, the cycle created by de Troy aroused true infatuation. The few hundred tapestries made between 1738 and 1797 – all in high-warp tapestry and woven in wool and silk except for four in low-warp made in Neilson’s workshop – show the impressive success of a tapestry set that was without any doubt the most frequently woven of the 18th century in France.
29 Only three cartoons had been delivered by de Troy in 1738 when the first tapestry set was begun by Audran under the expert eye of Jean-Baptiste Oudry to whom the Directeur général des bâtiments, Philibert Orry had assigned the (weekly) supervision of the weaving. During the summer of 1738, the piece of the Fainting of Esther, which Oudry judged to be admirable, was finished.
During the winter of 1742, Oudry informed Orry that about two ells of the Triumph of Mor’decai had been made “with no faults”,that the Coronation of Esther was finished and that the Esther at her Toilet “a very gracious tapestry” was “a little over half” finished. Exhibited at Versailles in 1743, these two last pieces were admired by Louis XV and the Court.
On 3 December 1744, the set of seven tapestries was finally delivered to the Garde Meuble. It was intended, the honour was not slight, to decorate the apartments of the Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain whose marriage to the young Dauphin Louis-Ferdinand had been fixed for the following year (it took place on 23 February 1745). Apparently it was thought that the theme of Esther the biblical heroine and wife of a foreign sovereign was appropriate for the apartments of the Spanish Dauphine.
As early as the month of March, the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel informed de Troy that her grand cabinet was decorated with the “Esther tapestry set” specifying however that “for lack of two small or one large piece, we have not been able to decorate the end of the room”. This difficulty led immediately to the Banquet episode being woven a second time in two parts (they were delivered to the Garde-Meuble on 30 December 1746) to garnish the panels on each side of the bed of the Dauphine who would hardly enjoy them (she died on 22 July 1746 and the decoration was installed for the new Dauphine Maria Josepha of Saxony).
The appearance of the set’s remarkable border, which imitated a richly sculpted wooden frame, should be mentioned. Conceived in 1738 by the ornamentalist Pierre Josse-Perrot and used in the later weavings until 1768, it tended to reinforce the resolutely painterly appearance of the tapestry set which, in this regard, pushed the art of tapestry as far as its ultimate mimetic possibilities. With the exception of Mor’decai's Disdain which had been removed earlier, the “editio princeps” of the story of Esther (from then on in nine pieces) remained at Versailles until the Revolution. Of the eight surviving tapestries, four are at the chateau of Compiègne and four belong today to the Mobilier National. No less than seven tapestry sets reputed to be complete (one of them in fact only had six tapestries) would be produced officially at the Gobelins up to 1772.
Literature:
1- The Œuvres mêlées of an emulator of Racine, the Abbé Augustin NADAL thus include an Esther. Divertissement spiritual which is exactly contemporary with Jean François de Troy’s cycle since it was performed in 1735 and published in Paris three years later.
2-Le Siècle de Louis XIV, 1751, 1785 ed., p. 96-97 for French ed.
3- Lemoyne and de Troy had been obliged to share the First Prize in the competition organised in 1727 between the most prominent history painters of the Académie Royale.
4- Mémoires…, pub. L. DUSSIEUX et al., 1854, II, p.265.
5-The fact that de Troy, at the risk of falling out with his colleagues, did not hesitate to make use of prices in order to convince the new directeur des Bâtiments Philibert Orry, is confirmed by Mariette who adds tersely “it caused much shouting” (pub. 1851-1860, II, p. 103).
6- Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres…, ed. 1762, IV, p. 368-369 20 Early comments on the painter are inclined to present him as a kind of “pure painter”, doing without the medium of drawing, a few intermediary studies between the Esther sketches and the large cartoons at the Louvre nevertheless show that de Troy used red chalk (see in the catalogue, the notice for the Meal of Esther and Ahasuerus under the entry drawing) to change one or other figure.
7-C. GASTINEL-COURAL (cat. exp. PARIS, 1985, p. 9-13) as well as the article by J. VITTET, exh. cat. LA ROCHE-GUYON, 2001, p. 51-55.
8-The Hermitage in St. Petersburg conserves five tapestries of these two royal gifts whose provenance still awaits elucidation (as far as we are aware). In 1766, the Grand Marshal of Russia, Count Razumovski (or Razamowski), acquired the Fainting and the Banquet extracted from the sixth weaving (J. VITTET, 2001, p. 53).
9- Lettres écrites de Suisse, d’Italie…,quoted by J. VITTET, op. cit., p. 54.
10-The tapestry set remained in the hands of a branch of the Hapsburg-Lorraine family until 1933 (ibid. P. 54).
11-Quoted by Chr. LERIBAULT, 2002, p. 97, note 269.
12-Y. CANTAREL-BESSON, 1992, p. 241.
Catalogue
The Esther at her Toilet
Oil on canvas, 57 x 51 cm Provenance: Painted in 1736 at the same time as the six other modelli of the Story of Esther intended to be presented, for approval, to the direction des Bâtiments du Roi; perhaps identifiable among a lot of sketches by Jean-François de Troy in the post mortem inventory of the amateur, historian and critic Claude-Henri Watelet (1718-1786) drawn up on 13 January 1786 and following days (A.N. T 978, n° 30) then in the sale of the property of the deceased, Paris, 12 June 1786, n° 33; Paris, François Marcille Collection (who owned a series of six sketches from which the Triumph of Mor’decai was missing, see infra); Paris, Marcille Sale, Hôtel Drouot, 12-13 January 1857, n° 36; Asnières, Mme de Chavanne de Palmassy ( ?) collection; Paris, Galerie Cailleux; Paris, Humbert de Wendel collection (acquired from the Galerie Cailleux in 1928); by inheritance in the same family; Paris, Sotheby’s, 23 June 2011, n° 61. In order not to add unnecessarily to the technical commentary on each work, the catalogue raisonné by Chr. Leribault which contains a substantial bibliography on the series should be referred to. The other bibliographical references only concern the publications and exhibitions to have appeared and been presented more recently. Bibliography and Exhibitions: Chr. LERIBAULT, 2002, n° P. 247 (repr.); E. LIMARDO DATURI, 2004, p. 28; Exh. cat. NANTES, 2011, p. 138, n° 34, referred to in note 1; Sotheby’s catalogue, Tableaux anciens et du XIXe siècle, 23 June 2011, n° 61 (repr.).
Related Works:
Tapestry cartoon: The cartoon (oil on canvas, 329 x 320 cm), the third made by the artist in Paris after the sketches had been approved by the direction des Bâtiments, is in the Louvre (Inv. 8315). It previously bore the painter’s signature and the date 1738 (inscriptions which are found on the tapestries). The royal administration paid 1600 livres for it on 21 June 1738 and it was exhibited at the Salon in the year of its creation.
Summary Biography
1679 (27 January): Baptism in Paris (Parish of St. Nicolas du Chardonnet) of Jean-François de Troy, son of the painter François de Troy and Jeanne Cotelle, sister of the painter Jean II Cotelle.
1696-1698: Studies (apparently rather turbulent) at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.
1698-1708: First trip to Italy. Is obliged to leave Rome in January 1711 after a tempestuous affair (a duel?), de Troy extends the traditional Roman experience as a pensionnaire at the Académie de France by also visiting Tuscany where he stays for a long time, Venice (his art in face has a strongly Venetian character) and Genoa.
1708: De Troy (whose father had been elected Director of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on 7 July) is agréé and immediately received at the Académie with Apollo and Diana Piercing with their Arrows the Children of Niobe (Montpellier, Musée Fabre) on 28 July.
1710: First royal commission, paid for on 10 May (a sketch representing “the Promotion of the Order of the Holy Spirit” for the tapestry series of the History of the King).
1716: Jean-François de Troy is elected Assistant Professor at the Academy.
1720: He is appointed Professor.
1723: The artist creates the double portrait of Louis XV...
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Early 18th Century French Baroque Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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Wool, Silk
Jean Picart Le Doux, French tapestry Atelier Pinton, 1x6, L5m00xh2m00 - No. 1437
By Atelier Pinton, Jean Picart Le Doux, Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Artist: Jean Picart Le Doux
Period: 20th century
Style: Modern art
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool
Width: 500 cm
Height: 200 cm
A stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower We...
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1960s French Aubusson Vintage Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool
$38,773 Sale Price
20% Off
French Signed Aubusson Tapestry, Hide-and-Seek Game Scene - 204X187cm - No. 1540
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Period: 19th century
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool & Silk
Width: 204 cm
Height: 187 cm
Depth: 1 cm
In keeping with tradition, this magnificent tapestry has undergone a...
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19th Century French French Provincial Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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Wool, Silk
French Aubusson Tapestry, Circa 1940 - L165xh108cm - No. 1520
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Located a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, we are a French family business
specializing in the purchase, sale, expertise, cleaning, restoration and conservation of
tapes...
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1940s French French Provincial Vintage Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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Wool
Exceptional 17th Century Aubusson Tapestry Wall Hanging
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
A truly exceptional 17th Century Aubusson tapestry wall hanging.
Dating to the second half of the 17th Century, depicting a mythological scene of a King accompanied by centurions or ...
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Late 17th Century French Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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Tapestry
Michel FOUR - Certified french Aubusson Tapestry, exapmle 1/1 - No. 1558
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Michel FOUR - Certified Aubusson Tapestry, Unique Sample - 1m47Lx1m77H - No. 1558
Artist: Michel Four *Provenance: Direct Purchase from the Artist*
Era: 20th Century
Style: 1950s-196...
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20th Century French Aubusson Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool
Set of Two Aubusson Door Tapestries with Blue Accents, Early 18th Century
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
Step into a world of timeless beauty with these exquisite Aubusson tapestries ! Imagine adorning your home with these stunning door curtains that depict the enchanting seasons of Spr...
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Early 18th Century French Régence Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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Wool, Silk
French Tapestry, Genuine Jacquard in Medieval Style - H160xW142 cm - No. 1440
By Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Located a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, we are a French family business
specializing in the purchase, sale, expertise, cleaning, restoration and conservation of
tapes...
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19th Century French Medieval Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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Wool
Verdure le chemin, French Greenery Tapestry by Manufacture Aubusson - N° 1514
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Verdure Le Chemin, Tapestry from the Aubusson Factory - Signed, Bolduc - 190lx110h - No. 1514
Weaver: Manufacture Aubusson
Era: 19th century
Style: Greenery
Condition: Perfect condi...
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19th Century French French Provincial Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool, Silk
Greenery French Tapestry Aubusson Manufactory 19th Century - 142lx197h - N 1530
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Period: 19th century
Style: Greenery
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool & Silk
Width: 142 cm
Height: 197 cm
Depth: 0.5 cm
In keeping with tradition, this magnificent tapes...
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19th Century French French Provincial Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool, Silk
Rape of the Sabine women, antique Flemish Tapestry End of 16th century - N° 1473
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Rape of the Sabine Women, Flanders Tapestry, Late 16th Century - L4m22xh2m35 - No. 1473
Manufacture Des Flandres
Epoque: 16th century
Style: Haute époque-Renaissance-Louis XIII
Condi...
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16th Century French French Provincial Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool, Silk
$22,560 Sale Price
27% Off
19thc. French Antique Louis XVI style Floral Aubusson Wall Hanging / Tapestry
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Opa Locka, FL
19thc French Antique Louis Rococo style Floral Aubusson Tapestry. I found this beauty in Nice France. There is a small stain on border top left. Not detracting at all. Birds, trees p...
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1880s Louis XVI Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Tapestry
$6,620 Sale Price
20% Off
Large 20th Century French Aubusson Carpet
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Very large 20th Century French Aubusson carpet featuring a traditional style.
This carpet is very nice being of this size and scale.
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20th Century French Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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Fabric, Wool
French Greenery Tapestry, Aubusson Manufactory 19th Century - L232XH174 - N 1519
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Period: 19th century
Style: Greenery
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool and silk
Width: 232 cm
Height: 174 cm
Depth: 0.5 cm
In keeping with tradition, this magnificent tape...
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1840s French French Provincial Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool, Silk
Pierre-georges Theron - French modern Aubusson Tapestry - L1m95xh1m00 - N° 1491
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Artist: Pierre-georges Theron
Era: 20th century
Style: Design 50s-60s
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool
Width: 195 cm
Height: 100 cm
Depth: 0.5 cm
Located a stone's throw ...
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20th Century French Modern Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool
Large 18th Century Verdure Tapestry with Pastoral Scene and Wolf Attack
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This large 18th century verdure tapestry is a striking example of the artistry and storytelling found in European weaving. Woven in wool and silk, it depicts a pastoral landscape fil...
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18th Century French Louis XV Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool, Silk
Mid-19th Century French Aubusson Manufactory Rug - Dim: 3m35x2m55 - N° 1532
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Artist: Aubusson Manufactory, 19th Century
Era: 19th Century
Condition: Perfect
Material: Wool
Length: 255 cm
Width: 335 cm
Depth: 1 cm (with doubler)
This magnificent rug, having b...
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Mid-19th Century French French Provincial Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool, Silk
Starfish, Jean Picart Le Doux - French Aubusson Tapestry, Maison Berthaut - 1543
By Aubusson Manufacture, Jean Picart Le Doux
Located in Paris, FR
Artist: Charles Marcel Jean Picart Le Doux
Era: 20th century
Style: 1950s-1960s design
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool
Width: 200 cm
Height: 150 cm
Depth: 0.5 cm
In keep...
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20th Century French Modern Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool
Little Wood Harp, Jean Picart Le Doux - French Aubusson Maison Berthaut - N 1536
By Aubusson Manufacture, Jean Picart Le Doux
Located in Paris, FR
Artist: Charles Marcel Jean Picart Le Doux
Era: 20th century
Style: 1950s-1960s design
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool
Width: 125 cm
Height: 162 cm
Depth: 0.5 cm
In keep...
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20th Century French Modern Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool
French Aubusson Tapestry 19th century, Monogramed J. Berton - 177lx80h - N 1484
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Located a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, we are a French family business
specializing in the purchase, sale, expertise, cleaning, restoration and conservation of
tapes...
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1850s French Aubusson Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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Wool, Silk
Homage to Mozart, Jean Picart Le Doux - French Tapestry, Edition artist - N 1467
By Jean Picart Le Doux, Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Artist: Jean Picart Le Doux
Era: 20th century
Style: Design 50s-60s
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool - Hand made
Width: 200 cm
Height: 150 cm
Depth: 0.5 cm
Located a ston...
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool
Aubusson Hand-Woven Wool Rug by Stark C. 1930s-1940s
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This exquisite rug by Stark, woven using the flat-weave tapestry technique, showcases the hallmarks of classic Aubusson craftsmanship—an intricate floral pattern in soft beige, ivory...
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Early 20th Century French French Provincial Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
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Wool
18th C. French Hand Woven Aubusson Tapestry with Birds, Ruins, and Floral Border
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
This exquisite antique tapestry was handwoven in Aubusson, France, circa 1760, and exemplifies the refined artistry and technical mastery for which this historic weaving center is ce...
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Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Tapestry, Canvas
Holly, Elie Grekoff - French Aubusson Tapestry, Edition E/A - 183lx115h - N 1511
By Elie Grekoff, Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
This magnificent Tapestry has benefited from a deep cleaning and a careful check by our experts in our artisanal Workshop. It is now ready to adorn your interior.
Artist: Elie Greko...
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20th Century French Modern Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool
18th Century French Aubusson Tapestry Fragment in Carved Gilt Frame
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a wall with this colorful 18th-century Aubusson tapestry fragment. Hand woven in France circa 1750, the tapestry depicts a richly woven bird nestled amid a lush arrangement ...
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Mid-18th Century French Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Tapestry, Giltwood
Constellations, Jean Picart Le Doux - 20th Century Aubusson Tapestry from Maison
By Jean Picart Le Doux, Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Artist: "constellations" By Jean Picart Le Doux
Era: 20th century
Style: Design 50s-60s
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool
Width: 138 cm
Height: 137 cm
Depth: 0.5 cm
Locate...
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20th Century French Modern Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool
French Aubusson Rug 19th century - Napoleon III style - 265x166, No 1359
By Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Period: 19th century - around 1860
Origin: Aubusson, FRANCE
Style: Napoleon III
Condition: Perfect condition (Cleaned, Lined in our workshop)
Material: Wool & Silk
Width: 2m65
Length...
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1860s French Napoleon III Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool
French Tapestry, Genuine Jacquard in Medieval Style - H 131 x W 190 cm - N 1439
By Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Located a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, we are a French family business
specializing in the purchase, sale, expertise, cleaning, restoration and conservation of
tapes...
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19th Century French Medieval Antique Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool
Manufacture Robert Four, Printed Tapestry after a 16th Century Tapestry
By atelier robert four, Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Manufacture Robert Four.
"Baillée of the roses"
silkscreen printed tapestry on woven wool after a 16th century tapestry.
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1950s French Renaissance Vintage Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool
Adelyne Neveux, The Daisies - French Aubusson Tapestry, Atelier Legoueix - 1445
By Camille Legoueix Atelier, Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Located a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, we are a French family business
specializing in the purchase, sale, expertise, cleaning, restoration and conservation of
tapes...
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1960s French Aubusson Vintage Aubusson Manufacture Furniture
Materials
Wool
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Aubusson Manufacture furniture are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of tapestry and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Aubusson Manufacture furniture, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original furniture by Aubusson Manufacture were created in the Louis XVI style in france during the 18th century and earlier. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider furniture by and Royal Manufacture of Aubusson. Prices for Aubusson Manufacture furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $15,849 and can go as high as $15,849, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $15,849.
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- What is Aubusson fabric?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Aubusson was a well-known textile and rug maker from the 17th century. It was celebrated for its grand designs and exceptional quality, making both tapestry-woven carpets and knotted-pile carpets woven on looms. The designs were highly detailed and often featured floral motifs. On 1stDibs, find a collection of Aubusson rugs and carpets from some of the world’s top sellers.
- What is Aubusson style?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Aubusson style is often used to describe a certain type of pileless, flat-woven rug. The name comes from the region in France where the style originated during the 14th century. Furniture, pillows and tapestries may also be Aubusson style, meaning they feature the same crafting techniques and decorative themes as the rugs. You'll find a selection of Aubusson rugs on 1stDibs.
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